Safety first

[Cougar]

Man, I'd be so nervous that the river would flood it out. But that's just me. I'm a nervous Nellie.

There's a hydro dam not far upstream and another one not far downstream, so the level is well controlled. Even if the upper dam burst, we're up the slope quite a ways; I don't think it'd take us out.

Now, 15,000 years ago, there was a glacial ice dam right around here, which would occasionally let loose all the water stacked up in humongous Lake Missoula and unleash a cataclysmic flood all the way down to (what would later be) Portland, lol.

 

[Nuuska]

Very beautiful!

In that first photo, is that a hotel or a big house (or something) in the woods behind it?

Nah - just a steel part of a bridge where 270 ore trains pass daily . . .

 

[Prince of Darkness]

 

[GAD]

It's fine. Looks like they wire-tied the two ladders together. Might even be vice-grips.

 

[GGJaguar]

It's fine.

Triangles are strong.

 

[awagner]

Plus, 2 spotters.

 

[davismanLV]

I'm actually impressed!! For some reason it doesn't bother me much. But then, I'm not up there either.

 

[GAD]

Triangles are strong.

I had a high school teacher who *loved* triangles and who had us looking everywhere for them for exactly that reason.

 

[JohnW63]

So that's how you customize a quonset hut!